The California Republic

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: Republican Government in California
Part 3 California in a Federal System
Chapter 4 Popular Sovereignty, the Right of Revolution, and California Statehood
Chapter 5 Nature and Convention in the Creation of the 1849 California Constitution
Chapter 6 California and the Seventeenth Amendment
Chapter 7 Californians and Their Constitution: Progressivism, Direct Democracy, and the Administrative State
Part 8 Institutions
Chapter 9 Broken Promise: The Rise and Fall of the California Legislature
Chapter 10 No Allegiance but to the State: California Governors Hiram Johnson and Gray Davis
Chapter 11 The Progressive Court
Chapter 12 The Elections of 2002: Clear Cut or Ambiguous?
Part 13 Local Government
Chapter 14 The Problem of Local Government in California
Chapter 15 Local Government Finance in California
Chapter 16 The California Tax Revolt
Part 17 Statesmanship
Chapter 18 Armageddon in the West: California's Hiram Johnson
Chapter 19 Nixon, California, and American Politics
Chapter 20 Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of Modern California
Part 21 Policies and Perspectives
Chapter 22 Affirmative Action and Proposition 209
Chapter 23 Western Justice: John Ford and Sam Peckinpah on the Defense of the Heroic
Chapter 24 California Farming in a Classical Context
Chapter 25 The Politics of California Public Education
Chapter 26 The Least Secure Right: Privately Owned Firearms in California
Chapter 27 California's Political Mass Media
Chapter 28 An EPIC Legacy
Chapter 29 Water, Water Everywhere and Nary a Drop to Drink